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Tra l’umano e il divino: la divinazione in Giamblico. Un
commentario al terzo libro del De mysteriis.
CHESSA, PIETRO
De misteriis
Divination
Giamblico
Settore M-FIL/07 - Storia della Filosofia Antica
Divination is the leitmotif of this essay. I tried to analyze this subjet that the main
thinkers and philosophers point out as the key-subject of the neoplatonic sage
Giambilico's Treatise On the Mysteries of Egyptians. It is a ten books work and the third
one was totally focused on Divination by the Author. Here he refutes and debates
Porfirio's objections about the nature, the shapes and the teurgic aims the divination
art can have. This essay follows the studying method already used in the Comment of
the Book III of the Treatise On the Mysteries of Egyptians: in this way i tried to show up
and present a fresco about the wide variety of theories, doctrines and contradictions
about this subject and describe an original complete critic structure, that you cannot
find in other essays about this theme. The core-subject of this debate is the
dissertation of Portirio's theory that we can read in the Letter to Anebo: here the
philosopher describes the divination origin as a complete natural origin, based on
psyco-physiological mood and inclinations of a typical soothsayer. Giambilico opposes
his idea to Portirios's, and he elevates the role of the medium from the soothsayer
attitude to the Supernatural, far from a mixture based on the human level and
existence.
2014-05-22
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